Hiroshima Commemoration: August 3-4, Santa Fe & Los Alamos

Launching lanterns at Ashley Pond as sunset nears, 2005

From Pax Christi NM:
Please join Pax Christi New Mexico, Vets for Peace and Dragonfly Sanctuary for our Annual Hiroshima Commemoration on Friday and Saturday, August 3rd and 4th. In the spirit of love and respect for all life, join us to vigil, pray and witness for peace in Santa Fe and Los Alamos, New Mexico on the 62nd Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of HIROSHIMA, Japan. Click for flyer (PDF).

Santa Fe, Friday, August 3rd: Come hear Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch, speak at 7:30 PM at El Museo in Santa Fe about galvanizing a Peace Community. There will also be a Mass for Peace at 4 PM at Santa Maria de la Paz with Fr. John Dear.

Santa Fe and Los Alamos, Saturday, August 4th: From 9 AM to Noon, there will be a Non-Violence Training at Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe. We are lucky to have Judy Bierbaum and her husband Keith running the training. Anyone who has taken a Non-Violence Training with Judy knows that it is a moving event in one's life. We are ALL in need of Non-Violence Training to counter the 24/7 barrage of violence that we are fed in OUR country.

Also, on Saturday August 4th at 2 PM, gather at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos for Pax Christi New Mexico's Sack Cloth and Ashes action. At 4 PM there'll be various speakers, musicians and poets including Fr. Roy and Santa Fe Mayor David Coss. At 7:30 PM the Lantern Floating Ceremony on Ashley Pond will begin. For updates, go to www.paxchristinewmexico.org. Questions? bud@siochainworld.org